Zane Landers

Zane Landers is a well-known amateur astronomer and one of the younger active members of the amateur community. He has been featured in Sky & Telescope (September 2018) as well as TIME (Labor Day 2018/online) and National Geographic (online) for the construction of his homemade 6" f/4.3 Newtonian and handmade primary mirror. Zane's other projects include homemade 6", 10" 12", 16", and 20" Dobsonians including his new 10" f/3.2 which will be one of the subjects of his talk, as well as the refurbishment and cataloging of dozens of amateur-class telescopes in the past few years, and active involvement in the relocation of the 22" Stamford Observatory Maksutov-Cassegrain. Zane is currently a high school senior and is also working on earning his associates degree at Norwalk Community College.